A US strategy sometimes credited with helping Malmö bring its shootings under control after years of gang violence is now being rolled out to troubled youths in the city. The Sluta skjut approach (“ceasefire”, or literally “stop shooting” – known as Group Violence Intervention in the US) has so far been used on a handful
On Tuesday afternoon, people from criminal groups were called to Örebro’s first Stop Shooting meeting. The meeting was held at the Konserthuset in Örebro and the aim is to reduce deadly violence. During the meeting, people from criminal groups received a clear message from the authorities and the local community: “We do not accept the gross
After years of increasingly violent gang crime in Malmö, the southern Swedish city was faced with little choice but to try something new. Here’s how police, city officials, organisations and members of the public worked together to sharply reduce the number of shootings.
From November 18-20, 2020 NNSC staff participated in the first annual CrimCon virtual conference on academic criminology and criminal justice, a project of the Criminology Consortium. International adaptation of focused deterrence International implementations of focused deterrence Meaghan MacDonald, National Network for Safe Communities, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Focused Deterrence in Malmö, Sweden Kyle
In October 2018, fed up with years of shootings and explosions connected with the city’s gangs, Malmö’s police force launched a new strategy based on the Group Violence Intervention (GVI) technique pioneered in US cities such as Boston, Baltimore and Minneapolis.
Swedish police consider American criminologist’s scheme after 12-year-old girl is shot and killed in gang crossfire in the capital
Based on an extensive body of Australian research on patterns of domestic violence offending and reoffending, and in light of recent developments in responses to domestic violence, this paper recommends trialling focused deterrence and ‘pulling levers’ to reduce domestic violence reoffending in an Australian pilot site.
In “What Works in Reducing Community Violence,” a 2016 systematic review commissioned by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Thomas Abt and Christopher Winship identified NNSC’s focused deterrence approach as demonstrating the most significant impact on violence reduction and recommended that “…funders could launch a multi-site experiment of focused deterrence across the three
Malmö is fighting back against its image for violent crime with an innovative campaign that is involving the community, social services, the police and…
On May 21, the White House issued a statement that repeatedly used the word “animals” to describe people involved in the MS-13 gang. Two days later, at a public forum on Long Island, this language was repeated and reinforced. MS-13 (the initials for Mara Salvatrucha) originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s through a complex